State-owned petroleum company Qatar Petroleum announced, Wednesday, that it has reached an agreement with Italian multinational oil and gas company Eni to purchase 30 percent participating interested in the Tarfaya Shallow Exploration Permit, located offshore the cities of Sidi Ifni, Tan Tan and Tarfaya, reports Reuters. According to the same source, Eni will have a 45 percent participating interest, while Qatar Petroleum will be left with 30 percent. The remaining 25 percent will
The Arab Development Council for Women and Business announced, Tuesday, that it has stripped Moroccan poet Bouchrail Echchaoui of honor, after realizing that she visited Israel.
The UN personal envoy for Western Sahara Horst Köhler has, officially, invited Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario Front to attend the second round-table on the territorial conflict on March the 21st and 22nd, reports AFP, quoting the United Nations. The meeting, which is supposed to be attended by Foreign Affairs Ministers from Morocco, Algeria and Mauritania, as well as the Polisario’s representatives, will be held in a place near Geneva that was not revealed to media,
After students at the Catholic school of Melle, in Belgium, dressed as Muslims wearing «explosive belts», the Muslim Executive of Belgium reacted to the «controversial» celebration, complaining to the Inter-federal Anti-Discrimination Institution (UNIA), reports Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure. The executive, which represents the Muslim community in Belgium sought the head of the Catholic Education Flanders, says the same source, stressing that «these actions
Dutch police, in a village called Urk (central Netheralnds), arrested, Tuesday, two young men who have attacked the house of Dutch-Moroccan family, reports Dutch News. The arrestees, aged 18 and 21, are accused of storming the house of the Boukhizzou family alongside a mob and slightly injuring the 36-year-old mother, her son Soufyan and her daughter. According to the same source, the group of youngsters were involved in riotous actions on the same day, before the police restored order
Morocco is preparing for the second round-table on Western Sahara, to be held on the 21st and 22nd of March in Geneva. «Presidents of the Laayoune-Saguia Al Hamra regions, Sidi Ould Errechid and Dakhla-Oued Eddahab, Ynja Khattat were reportedly summoned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation to attend a meeting in Rabat to prepare for the second round-table with Horst Köhler and representatives from Algeria, Mauritania and the Polisario», a
The Paris wax museum, Musée Grévin, was recently renovated, updating the wax figures of some celebrities and politicians. According Facebook page Discovery Morocco, the wax statue of King Mohammed VI was one of the figures that were changed this year at the museum. King Mohammed VI's former wax figure at the Musée Grévin in Paris, France./Ph. DR The Moroccan king’s statue, wears a grey suit, black tie and a white shirt. It was placed near the one of
In 1629, French navy member Isaac de Razilly sailed to Morocco to free Christian subjects, enslaved by Rabat and Salé’s corsairs. Razilly blockaded the two cities, leading to a civil war that weakened the country’s pirates.
A Muslim immigrant was denied a green card application by the United States, reports the Independent. The decision was taken after the man, who married an US citizen, was detained at Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas, where he was served pork sandwiches only. For more than six days, the Muslim man was forced to eat pork, which is restricted in Islam. Although Adnan Asif Parveen had a work permit allowing him to work legally in the United States, while his application for a green card was
On Tuesday morning, the Faculty of sciences and technologies at Hassan II University in Casablanca rendered homage to El Hassan Essayouti, a nuclear physics professor who worked at the institution. Essayouti is one of the 157 passengers who died Sunday, after an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 crashed near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. During this occasion, the professor’s former colleagues remembered him through the speech of the university’s dean. Rachida Roky, a biology